Everything posted by MigL
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Could all mass be grounded by mass ?
You gotta love it when Joe, who professes to know very little Physics, insists on telling learned people how things work. I was wondering when someone was going to bring up 'residual' electrostatic forces that provide for molecular bonding. A 'grounded' charge feels no force, so Joe would think that a 'grunded' mass ( such as on the Earth's surface ) would also feel no force, yet it does; we call it weight Fields are particular to the model, and sometimes treating them as 'liquids' works for that particular model; sometimes a different approach is required.
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Is there a food that never makes big bellies ? [nutrition]
Beer bloats you, and cheese constipates you => distended stomach. None of the things I like are good for me.
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Is there a food that never makes big bellies ? [nutrition]
If you work hard, the energy density of 'green shrubbery' cannot provide the needed calories unless you consume large amounts and end up with a distended midsection ( like gorillas ). On the other hand, some foods, mainly starchy carbs, like breads and pasta ( but also rice and potatoes ) will contribute to the 'typical European physique'; large around the midsection ( barrel shape ) but with relatively thin arms and legs. ( I don't know if there are any studies done on this, but I do notice it in most middle aged Italians ) Like everything else in life, there are no simple answers. Moderation in everything you eat is the only advice.
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Time Wasters
No one has ever been banned for having a difference of opinion with another poster. And you convince others to your point of view with a robust argument; not complaints. Why not just drop it and concentrate on your posts; not complaining about others' ?
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Early Universe Nucleosynthesis
Never been a fan of LaTex either.
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Time Wasters
You are focusing on the part about being right or wrong; which are not against the rules. We are all here to learn. I've been wrong lots of times, as I'm sure you have; allow others the same courtesy. And referring to someone as a 'moron' is against the rules; even if as a choice between troll or moron.
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Early Universe Nucleosynthesis
What is the intended purpose ? I simply assume that, as the universe cools, particles of the appropriate mass/energy are created at the appropriate temperatures. It is the annihilation of these particles with their anti-particles that poses the problem of preponderance of matter WRT anti-matter.
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Time Wasters
Mordred has earned 'respect' from many of us on this forum. It seems the jury is still out on you; but you do show hope,and I value ( most ) of your contributions 🙂 . Don't be obsessively stubborn and blow it.
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Time Wasters
Wow. Talk about 'throwing stones' when you live in a 'glass house'.
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Time Wasters
I feel your pain, Studiot. Most times these posters ask questions easily answered by a google search, or 'pepper' their post with scientific buzz-words which they think mean something else. I usually tend not to reply to those posts, and hope the thread dies a quick death. If feeling particularly bored I might reply with attempted humor, but I really hate it when those types of threads go on for many pages, and no one learns anything from them. Sometimes it gets so bad I don't post anything for several days.
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solid state hard drive
On the other hand,charge migration with the extremely small feature size, and multi-level cells, of modern SSDs, necessitating cell redundancies, and various error correction algorithms for on-the-fly swapping of failed cells, makes the premise that SSDs are more durable than spinning magnetic drives questionable. Current consumer SSDs use quad level cells to store 16 bits of information per cell, and are extremely prone to charge migration. Enterprise SSDs, used in data centers, are usually restricted to 2 level cells, and are much more expensive.
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Black Hole Questions.
To put it in layman's terms ... Gravitational waves are the 'ringing' of space-time ( outside any possible event horizon ) from the inward spiral/collision of two or more massive objects. Not only Black Holes, but neutron stars, white dwarfs, and even bowling balls ( but would be undetectably weak ). As for 'infinities' and other timings related to Black Holes, your frame of reference matters, and we have different names for these timings depending on who is doing the observing. ( see Markus' explanation for more detail ).
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leaving this forum
I'm with Studiot on this, Erik. I have been re-reading the threads you participated in, concerning Gravity theory and fine tuning of the Universe, and I found your posts to be thoughtful and insightful. Even when making statements that others corrected, there is no need for editing, as they become a valuable learning tool for others. And that is the reason we are all here; to learn from others, and sometimes, provide some insights, or even teach a thing or two to the 'experts'. Your contributions, so far, are valued and appreciated.
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Asymmetry in Galaxy Distributions
At first I thought this was a violation of isotropy and homogeneity, indicating the universe has a 'drection', but on reading the link, I realized it is another ( of a few ) parity violations. Who knows, investigatng the cause of this effect at the earliest moments of the Big Bang, may shed some light on why the current universe is predomiinantly matter, and almost devoid of anti-matter. ( but I doubt it )
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Putin has attacked Poland?
You suggest that the 'stick' of sanctions and retaliation is ineffective because it only affects the common people, while the despots and their oligarchs are insulated against them. You suggest the 'carrot' approach of diplomacy and negotiations, but why would the despots negotiate if you don't have any leverage ( lack of 'stick' ) on them ? What you are in effect proposing is appeasement. Give away parts of Ukraine, and have her people enslaved for your 'peace of mind'. And this will work exactly the same next time V Putin wants to annex more territory. Not everyone who does 'evil' things does so because they are hungry or oppressed. There are evil people in this world ( not on yours ?? ). Of all the evil people of the last century, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Putin and KJU, all looked well-fed to me; maybe Hitler could have used a sandwich.
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Two Future Resurrections
Peterkin is a zombiophobe ! 😄 😄
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Dropping Like Flies Worldwide
Ah, but he did provide evidence, Swansont ... His dumb, uninformed post is evidence that it is happening.
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Putin has attacked Poland?
I know exactly what you mean. Those Nazi Ukrainians, and their jewish President, will stop at nothing in an effort to implicate those innocent Russian victims and make them look bad in the eyes of the World. Those well-intentioned Russians should just leave the Ukraine to their evil ways, and stop trying to help and denazify them.
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Particles Physically Exists!
Is this a belief, or can you suggest a way to prove it ?
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Why does everyone believe in particles?
But that is exactly what we're dealing with; nothing other than fields on top of fields. Whether scalar ( value at a point ), vector ( value and direction at a point ) or even tensor ( for that pesky gravity field ), QFT is governed by Heisenberg, and so values at a specific point cannot be exact. These small 'ripples' in the quantzed fied values must meet a certain threshold; below that threshold they are 'virtual', and if surpassing the threshold, they are 'real'. It is foor convenience that we treat these field excitations as quantum particles. See the sticky in Quantum Theory "Matter is excitations in a field" It i
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Why does everyone believe in particles?
Why do I picture your house to look like Dr Emmett Brown's house ( from Back to the Future ), Sensei ?
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crowded quantum information
So, unless the interaction of an entangled particle, with its partner, 'fixes' the particular state of the entangled property, the system has no reason to decohere. It is only when the interaction with the entangled partner results in a defined state ( even if we don't know it ? ) that entanglement is lost. Makes sense; thanks Markus.
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Putin has attacked Poland?
And my point is people have to be responsible, and be held accountable, for their actions/decisions. Especially when those actions/decisions result in hundred thousands of deaths and whole countries destroyed through no fault of their own.
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Why does everyone believe in particles?
That's the thing about quantum particles, we can't determine much about them before detection/interaction; they are simply a mathematical expression of probability distributions. And, upon detection, their properties ( wave-like or particle-like ) depend mostly on the detection mechanism. As a result, we have various models which must be applied to differing circumstances.
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crowded quantum information
The 'wall' was referencing Markus' observation that whereas quantum particles can pass through a wall, as opposed to classical particles which cannot, some of us are thinking 'classically', and nothing is getting through. The question originally posed is, regardless of the mechanism for doing so, can a quantum particle lose coherence by interaction with its entangled partner ? Or does the common wave function alreadytake the interaction into account and simply 'updates' itself ?